"Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril."

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Source : Laurens Van der Post (1979). “Venture to the interior”, Harcourt

Laurens van der Post

#Change Quotes #Journey Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Nothing is difficult for the humble.”
“Good! Hang in there! It's normal! [Low self-esteem] Often it's a sign of intelligence (but don't let that go to your head haha)”
“Writing is?waiting for the word that may not be there until next Tuesday.”

Source : 1987 In the Los Angeles Times,13 Oct.
“It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.”
“Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space.”
“Are we acting like a couple? I'm just trying to get it straight. Cause I'm over here convinced that it's too early for mistakes.”
“The danger is not only that these austerity measures are killing the European economies but also that they threaten the very legitimacy of European democracies - not just directly by threatening the livelihoods of so many people and pushing the economy into a downward spiral, but also indirectly by undermining the legitimacy of the political system through this backdoor rewriting of the social contract.”

Source : "The root of Europe's riots" by Ha-Joon Chang, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2012.
“It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.”

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